David Reform what Reform ? They are not going to change a thing that cuts out corruption within the BLP they thrive on being corrupt, just more empty talk from Mottley pretty words with no meaning and no action to them and with less than a year and a half to an election what Reform can take place that would be meaningful ? the padding of the candidate votes has been done already so one less piece of fraud to deal with.

To BAFBPF:
I noticed some time ago I asked you why were you trying o foist Mia’s father on our judicial system, although knowing of his antecedents overseas. I also noticed that you very boisterous here for Mia and her lifestyle. I must admit she has a nack for getting the girls, but what do we call men who buy services from women. Is there a similar word for women like Mia, or do we need to create one. I suspect you are a family member, even closer that a cousin. Don’t be annoyed; she just does not have the stuff or talent to lead anything.

@Progressive
“However truth be told the BLP was not gaining any traction under her parliamentary leadership”
—– Is it gaining any under Owen?

@cAswell
—The BLP with Owen Arthur as Political Leader and Mia Mottley as Chairman is recipe for disaster”
Disaster for who? It seems like a most fortuitous situation for power seekers and an opposition seeking to retain government. Remember the title of this thread.

@Scout
“Mia will NEVER become P.M of Barbados until she changes her alleged lifestyle”
—The BLP just needs to win, and the majority or MPs support her and voila. It is done. Lifestyle isn’t a factor because she’s not the leader anymore and the present government has allowed BIGGER issues to take the forefront.

@Ayub
“The BLP is a political institution devoid of political talent.”
—Our entire political class for the most part seems to be a group devoid of political talent.

@Enuff
“A small swing and the Dems catspraddled!!!”
—You are entirely correct.

@Raquel
So why does ANYONE need to cut a deal with anyone?
—To improve your chances. To move from possibility to a near certainty.

@Lil boy
“you are still willing to take comfort in that fickleness.”
—It is that comfort that helps me understand the bullshit that people are willing to take and the shite they are always willing to spout when facts, evidence and history dictates otherwise should be the case. I sleep a little better at night and suffer fools gladly every day as a result.

@David
“Why are we losing the argument here?”
For the same reason that we cannot progress with real national development. Partisanship, parochialism, hypocrisy, convenient arguments and debates and blind eyes to what really matters and what really needs attention.

de young ppl that rallied behind Tompy, will not rally behind the current PM they love mia dont fool wunna selfs ask de men and women pun de blocks ,and ppl dun know that de D’S got one or two bullers in de camp.and it is true weak men dont like powerful women they show them up .

@lemuel
“Obediant you are mistaking public relation gimmicks for talent.”

Ironically, it is the public relation gimmicks that win elections, not talent.

@lemuel | September 13, 2011 at 11:11 AM |

To the DLP operatives:
I would caution you not to attack members of the BLP on their lifestyle; for instance the piece which talks about Miss Walcott coming in a chairman. Most bajans do not know who in the DLP practices the alternative lifestyles and the discovery may be shocking, when the BLP operatives here begin to tell all.
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Put up or shut up. name DLPees with alternative lifestyles to match with Miss Walcott. Not sure what Mia is of late dont know if she BLP still .
Owen call back co-leader baby daddy of dozens village ram Clydie speak on him. Not to leave out Muscle Mary and them two suspicious legal things George and Gail

can

lemuel | September 13, 2011 at 11:03 AM |

Man have a heart nah? I just sympathize with women with means and influence like Mia who have difficulty dealing with the sheepish males, particularly the ones that abound in her profession who they should rightly look too for suitable companionship. I met Mia up close once about two years ago, and she struck me as an awesomely attractive female. And when she started with that deep sensuous purr I felt the exuberance, the stirring that is the pride of the young, the preserve of the virile … But only too soon did it dawn on me that there were others in my life that I should … and so on and so on.

Miss Mottley may some day make leader, but make no mistake, she will be no different from any other. You have my intentions confused. I despise the West Minister bull that has been dumped on us. I am proud to say that I will no longer be a participant …!

WHY do I feel that MIA will not assume the Prime MINISTER ship ANYTIME SOON ??

why didnt Cammie become Prime Minister
or Sleepy become General General or Richie become Prime Minister ???
DO you know sometimes when these people crave after those kind of positions that they sometimes never achieved it ??

Quoting BABFP ” I met Mia up close once about two years ago, and she struck me as an awesomely attractive female. And when she started with that deep sensuous purr I felt the exuberance, the stirring that is the pride of the young, the preserve of the virile”

Wuhloss!!!!!!!!!!! BABFP clearly like a heavy sweet.

But you are right. Bajan men prefer weak women.

To Lord He Saw:
The outing of these people is your thing not mine. I see you love doing it. My position on it what they do in the privacy of their residence is of no concern to me, but when they push a philosophy like Mia and Peter the spy Wickham, I have a problem with it. The mess they call a life is no alternative to any body. i know people with the alternative life style that i have a lot of respect for but at least they have a time and place for that. These two show no bounds for their tawdiness.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×831768

VECO Corporation Heavily Involved With Barbados Politicians, Government Projects

Breaking News: On Friday, May 4, 2007, American politicians and businessmen were indicted in a bribery scheme involving VECO Corporation, a company that is heavily involved with the Barbados government and various Barbados politicians and business people. VECO’s Barbados projects include the oil terminal and pipeline, and the building of the new prison.

At least one of the arrested Alaska politicians was secretly recorded by the FBI in conversations where he spoke about receiving a position with VECO’s Barbados prison operations. As there are hundreds of hours of police recordings, there is no doubt that further Barbados revelations will occur at the trial.

This Is A Big Story – And It Will Get Bigger

WHY DO DLP PEOPLE ALWAYS TELL LIES
AND MANUFACTURE UNTRUTHS ?
WHY AM I NOT FOOLED BY THEIR LIES ?

VECO Appoints Convicted Securities Fraud Felon As New CEO
June 6, 2007

Barbados – Does the Board of Directors for scandal ridden VECO Corporation know that their newly-appointed Interim C.E.O. was convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for his leading role in a securities fraud that took millions of dollars from trusting investors?

For VECO Corp’s Board of Directors, it is difficult to say what would be the best or worst answer to that question… “Uh-Oh, we didn’t know that” or “Yes, we know but we don’t care.”

On Monday, June 4, 2007, VECO Corp. Chairwoman Tammy Kerrigan announced that Daniel E. Armel had taken over for disgraced company founder Bill Allen who resigned after pleading guilty to federal charges of extortion, bribery and conspiracy.

Before making their announcement, maybe VECO’s Board of Directors should have looked at the 1966 Annual Report of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, that tells of Daniel E. Armel’s conviction and sentencing…

The conviction of Daniel E. Armel and others by a jury in the Southern District of Ohio culminated the Commission’s investigation of the corporate “empire” of Armel. The fraudulent offer and sale of securities of the numerous corporations which made up the “empire” resulted in the loss of voer 9 million dollars to investors. Two of the defendants convicted, Donald Hathaway and Jack Singleton, were certified public accountants who actively assisted Armel in perpetuating this fraud. Armel, the chief architect of the fraudulent promotion, received a sentence of 15 years imprisonment.
… from the 1966 Annual Report of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Barbados Closely Watches The VECO Scandal
The continuing VECO scandal and ongoing FBI investigation is being watched closely by citizens of the Caribbean nation of Barbados where VECO and its subsidiaries are involved in government construction projects totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. The Attorney General of Barbados recently gave a press conference announcing that “any issues in relation to the United States has absolutely no connection to Barbados, or no connection at all to the construction of the prison”

Going even further in that interview, Barbados Attorney General Dale Marshall said “But I am satisfied that the company’s relationship with Barbados and the work they are doing for the Government of Barbados has at all times been entirely above board, and at no time is there any hint of a scandal in relation to the contracting of that company for the work on the prison or other work that they have previously done for the Barbados Government.”

Barbados Government Attempts To Defuse Questions About Relations Between VECO & Government Officials
Many Bajan citizens and local bloggers took issue with the apparent attempt by the Barbados Government to put “closure” on a scandal that is directly connected with Barbados – contrary to the Attorney General’s statements. It is alleged that Peter Kott, one of the accused in the FBI investigation, was offered a position at the new Barbados prison that is presently under construction. That project is hundreds of millions of dollars over the originally announced cost and Barbados citizens are concerned that VECO’s bribery techniques were used to obtain the prison contract and their previous major Barbados project, an oil terminal.

Barbados has no Conflict of Interest laws or Integrity Legislation for elected or appointed government officials. There is no Freedom of Information law that allows Barbados citizens or others to obtain information on government contracts. Recently there have been detailed allegations of corruption by government officials carried by that island’s independent web-based media, which the Barbados government ignores with increasing difficulty as an election is expected for the winter of 2007-2008.

Most recently a lawsuit was filed by a Canadian corporation against Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur, Chief Justice Simmons, Attorney General Dale Marshall and many other prominent Barbados politicians and corporations. The lawsuit apparently alleges corruption and behind the scenes dealings surrounding lands and government actions in Barbados.

Someone wrote that as a student at QC, Mia ” was no top student; why do you think she and Billie did law in england; she would have had to get in cave hill through the back door “.

While at QC, Mia was doubly promoted, that is, she skipped a form level because the school thought her a year ahead academically of her peers. Her performance at the then Cambridge Advanced Levels was moderate but good enough to get her into the London School of Economics, the alma mater of E.W.Barrow and many notable Commonwealth leaders (such as Michael Manley, Pierre Trudeau and Lee Kwan Yew) . It should be said that, as was possible in those days, her teachers believed that Mia should have repeated her sixth form with a strong possibility of winning the Barbados Scholarship. However given her family resources and therefor not strapped for finance, she went off to England.

Dame Billie Miller received a degree from Durham University in 1967 and was called to the Bar in England in 1968. The Faculty of Law of UWI was established at Cave Hill in 1970.

I would side with the opinion of Dr Peter Laurie, former PS of Foreign Affairs, Barbados Scholar and columnist who once wrote that David Thompson and Mia Mottley were two of the brightest parsons of their generation.

@Ping Pong

Thanks for your clarification. It exposes the agenda of some people who forget facts can be easily checked.

On another note.

WED, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 – 12:03 AM
OPPOSITION LEADER Owen Arthur is doing more harm than good to his party by insisting on having economist Clyde Mascoll as a candidate for the next general election, according to Government minister Donville Inniss.

Inniss charged yesterday that Arthur would only end up creating more divisions in his “troubled” Barbados Labour Party (BLP) because he was “cherry-picking” a constituency for Mascoll. In the process, the former Prime Minister was ignoring other BLP candidates with legitimate aspirations concerning certain ridings, “insulting the electorate” and dismissing the long-held position that a candidate needed to “get into the trenches and work”, Inniss told the MIDWEEK NATION.

BUT

BY TIM SLINGER | FRI, AUGUST 12, 2011 – 12:09 AM

The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) has axed Taan Abed as its representative for the Christ Church West Constituency in the next general elections.

Instead, it is going with attorney-at-law Verla DePeiza who has been given the nod to contest in the riding in the next general election constitutionally due by the end of the first quarter of 2013. The decision taken at the party’s General Council meeting Wednesday night has triggered an uneasy mood among supporters of the 54-year-old businessman who scored a runaway 86-5 victory over DePeiza at the constituency’s nomination process a few weeks ago.

Maybe I do need a brain transplant.

Thank you
ENUFF for exposing the hypocrites–(hypocreatures)

Donville Inniss should lose his seat in the next election
The only DLP seats won will be Kellman in St. Lucy and Thompson in St.John.
Deja-vu ??
you bet your lying DLP ass it will be.
The electorate has had enuff (no pun intended) of DLP folly
Listening to the ordinary folks out there , they are saying that things hard and they can only get through if the Government change. When you get a new government. One was heard quite clearly on the VOB Sunday Brass-Tacks call-in show on the topic of ‘Boys (and girls) on the Block” saying to same thing.

I know how the Orleans people, the Silver hill people, the Town people and the country people does think boy and they want OWEN.
They say he is the man to steer the ship around. OWEN might bot have all the answers —who does anyway ???? BUT a man like OWEN who has been good to many people , can attract the right kind of people around him and get the job done. OWEN has delivered.
30, 000 jobs
a stable economy
Unemployment 6% -even with Guyanese around
30, 000 people at the East Coast for Party Monarch
Free of duty computers- so that people can come on BU and criticize him and the BLP
The beautification of Bridgetown , Have you seen Independence Square ? -and the immediate area –the constitution river by VOB
Errol Barrow statue—respect to the father of independence
GAIA (de-Airport)—sweet , nice ==oh gosh ! love it

Ah cant call alll—

@enuff

You love to compare apples with gooseberry seeds. How can you compare the jettisoning of Taan Abed with this matter? The two storylines are different and you know it. BTW if you do a search of BU you may find the reason why the DLP may want to replace Abed with new blood.

@Lemmie

You are correct that BU believes what Mia is doing is good for party politics in Barbados. Time to pelt a big rock in the Old Boys Club House.

The other issues you raised Ping Pong has demonstrated over time he is equipped to fight his battles.

To David:
I agree with you that the old boys club needs to be shake up. You are backing the wrong person to do it. When it suits Mia purpose she uses it to her benefit.

Correction: Pat Inniss, Francis Depeiza, Irene Sandiford-Garner and Haynesley Benn should NOT be candidates in 2013.

People on the ground know that Taan Abed is a dead horse and the Executive knows it.

St James North Hinkson … Wait wunnad talkin’ about Edmund? Now seriously, what on God’s Earth can these legal types have to offer a population that they have leached and suffocated since time immemorial … Seriously …?